Also Pairs Well With: Discussion of Conille’s background and professional history. Conille says, “I am not the candidate that the blan [international community] is sending back to Haiti. I am the candidate that Haiti strategically put inside the blan to better understand the blan and to come back and help Haiti.”

Pairs Well With: A review of President Martelly’s primary education plan. As one of the few social policy programs he has outlined in any detail, the focus on schooling is significant. Nonetheless, the review points out that with a projected funding gap of $80 million per year, the “sustainability of the program is unclear.”

It is unconscionable that our countries, which have all experienced foreign aggression, should be among those to trample the sovereignty of a country that has experienced countless brutal interventions since courageously breaking the chains of slavery and colonialism.